I think the approach about a mesh of bearings that can rotate in all directions is a very good one. As for tracking the movement, it could be done with optical sensors. It would probably get slightly pricy having one optical sensor for each bearing, but it would probably be effective.
Hypothetically, it would work like the logitech "marble" trackballs. The balls would be speckled, with large contrast between the ball color and the speckle color. Optical sensors would then track the movement of the balls, and I would assume, average out the direction and the speed of the movement among all the balls.
One problem would be after-spin. When you spin a trackball, it will continue to spin for a second or two after you let go, depending on how fast you would spin them. Maybe there would be more friction imposed on the bearing mesh. It's an interesting problem.
Of course the show will go on without her. There is a long history in TV of replacing actors. I'm surprised that the author of the article even seemed to think it was an issue
Of course it's an issue. Any fan of the show is going to know instantly when a voice is different. Remember when Ron Howard died and the media pulled a complete cover-up, and the Richie character on Happy Days was replaced by a life-like android replica of Ron Howard? Ever since then his voice has had this little metallic twinge to it. It's a dead giveaway.
we might be able to bring the suicide rate down (which IIRC, surpassed the murder rate this year by a good margin).
WARNING/DISCLAIMER:The following statement is blasphemous, but I like Platypi, so it's okay.
Well what we need to do is get that murder rate back above the suicide rate. We can't have the number one mortal crime in this country being self-inflicted, that's giving the people too much power!
I think we need to start a grass-roots effort to make more murders than suicides in this country. Take a lesson from the Columbine high school shootings. If you're gonna commit suicide, take a bunch of other people, preferably annoyingly self-centered and fashion-conscious teenagers, with you.
Go all out. Affix plastic explosives to the bottom of people's shoes. That's always fun. And I haven't seen napalm used in a while. Oh the endless hijinks.
You make it sound so bad by saying its a "selfish" act. Its a choice you make on how to live your own life. Someone may have the feelings that they are being robbed of a loved one but so what? Everyone dies sooner or later. At least they chose their way out.
But according to that fun children's book called the Bible, killing yourself is a mortal sin. Die with a mortal sin and you go straight to HellLand(TM). I'd dare say Hell is no adequate escape from ANY type of Earthly pain.
On the other hand, if all these hopeless people commit suicide and end up down below (not to be confused with down under, Australia) that would mean so many less depressing people up in Heaven. They're thinning out the herd!
Sorry, it just seemed funny. (Yes I'm joking about suicide. If you can't laugh about something, well... maybe you don't have a larynx or whatever gutteral body part is necessary for the act of laughter.)
And just for the record, I don't believe the Christian beliefs about Heaven and Hell. I do, however, believe the more Eastern concept of a soul who commits suicide having to linger in limbo, experiencing what they missed in life vicariously through the people they haunt as a ghost.... or something like that.
But I have the feeling most people who commit suicide aren't too concerned about the religious repricussions of their actions.
I hate to be off-topic, but your sig caught me offguard. The RBL (Realtime Blackhole List) is a travesty. The idea is to set up a list of domains that have been known to send spam that people can use as a sendmail filter to block the reciept of mail from those domains. There are two main flaws with this system.
There is absolutely no verification process that goes on when a site is added to the list. Average Joe User says "This domain spammed me" and it gets added to the list, no questions asked.
It blocks an entire domain, not specific users. The result of this is an incredibly high signal to noise ratio in the effectiveness of the list. If one person from an ISP with a 10,000 member subscriber base spams someone who complains to the RBL, any of the sites which filter through RBL will no longer accept mail from those 9,999 other innocent users.
I myself have had mail blocked from being sent because of the RBL. I have done nothing wrong and have spammed no one. The RBL simply serves to provide a simple solution to simple-minded people while punishing 99% of the people for the actions of 1%. It accomplishes nothing productive and I encourage anyone who calls themselves a "supporter" of the RPL to strongly reconsider.
Well scientists basically assume that the fundamental laws of physics exist unchanged throughout the universe. A planet here exudes the same gravitational pull as an identical planet on the other side of the universe.
It's also fairly obvious that humans are very different from every other life form on this planet in that we have consciousness, free will, language, and other such blessings/curses. The qualities which separate us from the animals on our planet are probably strikingly similar to the qualities that other intelligent life on other planets from their relative subversive species.
If laws of physics remain true throughout the universe, one would assume laws of genetics would remain similarly constant, and then could infer that there is a set "recipe" for intelligent life.
It's not too far-fetched to believe (assuming, hypothetically, the existence of extra-terrestrial life is already established) that intelligent alien species could be genetically similar and biologically compatible with homo sapiens. If donkeys and horses, two visually similar creatures, can mate and breed a mule, I see no reason why humans and grays could not successfully mate and form a (possibly sterile) hybrid creature.
I think you severely misunderstood the assignment. The exam, from the outset, posed a hypothetical situation where a new interenet arose, providing suchg features as an arbitrage agent, bodage agent, unique psuedonomical identities, etc... I believe the intent was to make you assess these new features, and create a situation in your mind of those features in effect.
Once you have that viewpoint, you are supposed to solve the problems stated, not point out how to live with them or say "tough luck" as it seems all your answers did.
As a professional web designer, I already gave up trying to support Navigator about a year ago. I still try to make the overall design look as similar as possible in both browsers, but there are dozens of things I like to do design-wise that Netscape just hasn't implemented yet, so sometimes it's impossible.
For instance, I worked on a site recently where the content text was double-spaced and ahd loosely typed. But netscape's style sheets implementation doesn't support character-spacing attributes. The DHTML support is also horrendous. Z-indexes are virtually ignored.
So I've basically resorted to designing all extra features for IE and making the sites just look the same in Netscape without having all the bells and whistles.
I think he's making a little stab at Romero... I mean earlier in the article he said he wouldn't partner on anything important, and now he's saying he'll just have him do levels... But it's still in a friendly sort of manner, I guess.
However, I think Commander Keen for Color GB would be the killer app that gets me to buy it. I grew up on Commander Keen and would gladly buy a Color GB and CK especially if they had all new levels.
Which raises the question: Has anyone tried playing Q2 or something similar using one of the conference room style projectors, such as the ones made by In-Focus? I realize image quality would not be "outstanding", but would it be "acceptable"?
At DefCon 5 they had a Quake tournament (which I lost first round cause the keyboard I was using only allowed one key to be pressed at once, which really fucked up my game) where one of the guys was playing through a projector with probably about a 15 foot diagonal screen. It was really cool to watch but the room should have been darker (a projector that outputs more lumens would have made for a better image in a medium-light condition like that).
it's quite obvious that pedophiles are a predatory, and dangerous breed
That's an umbrella statement, in addition to being an incorrect one. Just like animals in the wild, not all of them are predatory. Sure, there are some pedophiles who seek out young innocent children who have no predisposition to sexual contact. But just like there are scavenger animals who wait for a weak or dead animal to pounce upon, there are also scavenger pedophiles who look for individuals who are OPEN to sexual contact (for instance someone who's already in a channel called "Father&DaughterSex").
There is quite a difference between the two types of pedophiles, and I assure you they do exist. I see it as an unforgivable crime to molest or seduce a child who is not showing any signs of sexual activity. But let me tell you I was one fucking horny bastard when I was 13, and I know plenty of girls who were just as horny as me, and would have jumped at the opportunity of having sex with an older man. Hell, I know a few who did.
In my eyes there's nothing wrong--awkward, yes, but not wrong--with having consentual sex (yes it is possible) with a minor, no matter what the age. As long as it's fully consentual, age doesn't matter.
And even if he new it wasn't there's still the question of whether a 13-year-old can't give consent... I don't think any 13-year-old would actually go into a father&daughtersex chatroom, and certainly not stay there and chat for 4 hours... But if they did, I think it's their choice. But that's an ethical discussion, not a legal one.
It SHOULD be an ethical decision, but our braindead government has made it into a legal one.
What I don't understand is why this guy was trying to seduce an undercover FBI agent for sexual purposes. I mean why would he try to have sex with an FBI agent pretending to be a 13 year old girl when he probably could have found a real 13 year old girl, and get a taste of the real thing.
I hope he gets put away for a long time, though. Soliciting an FBI agent for sex is just SICKENING.
The technical term for a modem of this type is a "Host Signal Processing" or HSP modem. This means that instead of a chipset on the modem itself doing all of the calculations for compression, error checking, etc, those tasks are handled by the processor of the computer the modem is plugged into.
However, this type of modem setup requires software (in the form of a driver) to handle all the tasks the computer's supposed to perform for the modem, and most modem companies who make HSP modems are too lazy to write drivers for anything but windows. That's the only reason why they're referred to as WinModems.
You have a completely idealistic view of how to bring up kids and the complexities involved. When it is your money that is paying for your kids to do everything, then you will find that you wont be giving them money for things they want to do that you are not happy about. So effectively you will be censoring their view of the world and what they can do in it.
Yes, but the bottom line is that it SHOULD be the parent's job to censor what the child sees, and NOT the job of some dimwit theater employee, or a government who is completely out of touch with the kids that it's trying to protect.
If a parent wants to let their 7 year old kid watch porno, they're perfectly entitled to do that. Some people may think it's wrong, or immoral, but really it's up to the parent to decide.
When I was seven years old my parents would screen every movie we rented, and then when we watched it, they'd make me leave the room in advance whenever nudity ocured. If they rented a movie for themselves that they didn't feel I was old enough to see, they'd hide the video.
Then, when I was little older, they stopped doing that, and I was ready for it. Part of it was probably because when I was seven I was also playing doctor with the two sisters who lived next door;)
If you were my daughter I'd spank you for saying that.
Looks like nobody's going to do any spaking, since the author of the post is obviously a man, and therefore is physically incapabale of being ANYONE'S daughter.
This whole issue is just horrifically stupid. The other day I got carded to see American Pie with some friends, a movie which I had not only seen at another theater without hassle, but also have on my hard drive at home. And of course, the person carding me probably wasn't much older than me to begin with.
I've never been carded before, and it really pissed me off. I don't look underage, as far as everybody except that ticket booth nazi is concerned (I had recently seen Blair Witch and South Park at theateres which promised to card EVERYONE).
I've never see any problems erupt like the one in JonKatz's article. That's just absurd. Any manager of a movie theater who refuses to let kids in even when their mother is right there telling the manager that they have her consent needs to be fired. Nobody cares about the customers anymore.
If I was a parent, and there was an usher at the door of the theater forcing me to stay inside, and I had to go to the bathroom, I'd make a big scene and piss in the fucking theater. Then maybe they'd realize how absurd their policies were and consider changing them. I'd certainly consider changing my house rules if someone pissed in my living room in protest.
Well as much as I disagree with the theater's overreactive policies I can understand somewhat where they are coming from. They're being hit right and left by politics and all they want to do is make money, not fight moral wars
But the point is that by placing themselves on the front lines of the assault, they ARE fighting the moral war. There would be no moral war taking place at the theaters if there were no teenaged ticket-taking soldiers poised at attention on the popcorn-butter stained battlegrounds.
I haven't even turned on my TV in over 3 months. I'm not even sure if the cable's plugged in. I don't use the VCR cause I have a DVD-ROM drive. I can get my news through cnn.com and slashdot, and most shows these days suck. Sifl N Olly isn't airing any new episodes, and the new Simpsons suck. The only TV I've actually watched recently is one episode of Futurama on the TV at the hotel in Vegas during DefCon.
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Hypothetically, it would work like the logitech "marble" trackballs. The balls would be speckled, with large contrast between the ball color and the speckle color. Optical sensors would then track the movement of the balls, and I would assume, average out the direction and the speed of the movement among all the balls.
One problem would be after-spin. When you spin a trackball, it will continue to spin for a second or two after you let go, depending on how fast you would spin them. Maybe there would be more friction imposed on the bearing mesh. It's an interesting problem.
So? If fame didn't make anyone more important than the rest of us, we'd *ALL* be losers.
Of course it's an issue. Any fan of the show is going to know instantly when a voice is different. Remember when Ron Howard died and the media pulled a complete cover-up, and the Richie character on Happy Days was replaced by a life-like android replica of Ron Howard? Ever since then his voice has had this little metallic twinge to it. It's a dead giveaway.
WARNING/DISCLAIMER: The following statement is blasphemous, but I like Platypi, so it's okay.
Well what we need to do is get that murder rate back above the suicide rate. We can't have the number one mortal crime in this country being self-inflicted, that's giving the people too much power!
I think we need to start a grass-roots effort to make more murders than suicides in this country. Take a lesson from the Columbine high school shootings. If you're gonna commit suicide, take a bunch of other people, preferably annoyingly self-centered and fashion-conscious teenagers, with you.
Go all out. Affix plastic explosives to the bottom of people's shoes. That's always fun. And I haven't seen napalm used in a while. Oh the endless hijinks.
- You make it sound so bad by saying its a "selfish" act. Its a choice you make on how to live your own life. Someone may have the feelings that they are being robbed of a loved one but so what? Everyone dies sooner or later. At least they chose their way out.
But according to that fun children's book called the Bible, killing yourself is a mortal sin. Die with a mortal sin and you go straight to HellLand(TM). I'd dare say Hell is no adequate escape from ANY type of Earthly pain.On the other hand, if all these hopeless people commit suicide and end up down below (not to be confused with down under, Australia) that would mean so many less depressing people up in Heaven. They're thinning out the herd!
Sorry, it just seemed funny. (Yes I'm joking about suicide. If you can't laugh about something, well... maybe you don't have a larynx or whatever gutteral body part is necessary for the act of laughter.)
And just for the record, I don't believe the Christian beliefs about Heaven and Hell. I do, however, believe the more Eastern concept of a soul who commits suicide having to linger in limbo, experiencing what they missed in life vicariously through the people they haunt as a ghost.... or something like that.
But I have the feeling most people who commit suicide aren't too concerned about the religious repricussions of their actions.
- There is absolutely no verification process that goes on when a site is added to the list. Average Joe User says "This domain spammed me" and it gets added to the list, no questions asked.
- It blocks an entire domain, not specific users. The result of this is an incredibly high signal to noise ratio in the effectiveness of the list. If one person from an ISP with a 10,000 member subscriber base spams someone who complains to the RBL, any of the sites which filter through RBL will no longer accept mail from those 9,999 other innocent users.
I myself have had mail blocked from being sent because of the RBL. I have done nothing wrong and have spammed no one. The RBL simply serves to provide a simple solution to simple-minded people while punishing 99% of the people for the actions of 1%. It accomplishes nothing productive and I encourage anyone who calls themselves a "supporter" of the RPL to strongly reconsider.It's also fairly obvious that humans are very different from every other life form on this planet in that we have consciousness, free will, language, and other such blessings/curses. The qualities which separate us from the animals on our planet are probably strikingly similar to the qualities that other intelligent life on other planets from their relative subversive species.
If laws of physics remain true throughout the universe, one would assume laws of genetics would remain similarly constant, and then could infer that there is a set "recipe" for intelligent life.
It's not too far-fetched to believe (assuming, hypothetically, the existence of extra-terrestrial life is already established) that intelligent alien species could be genetically similar and biologically compatible with homo sapiens. If donkeys and horses, two visually similar creatures, can mate and breed a mule, I see no reason why humans and grays could not successfully mate and form a (possibly sterile) hybrid creature.
Once you have that viewpoint, you are supposed to solve the problems stated, not point out how to live with them or say "tough luck" as it seems all your answers did.
For instance, I worked on a site recently where the content text was double-spaced and ahd loosely typed. But netscape's style sheets implementation doesn't support character-spacing attributes. The DHTML support is also horrendous. Z-indexes are virtually ignored.
So I've basically resorted to designing all extra features for IE and making the sites just look the same in Netscape without having all the bells and whistles.
When a friend got three new linux systems, I suggested he name them Stop, Drop, and Roll :)
Probably cause the vocals distract you when trying to name variables.
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However, I think Commander Keen for Color GB would be the killer app that gets me to buy it. I grew up on Commander Keen and would gladly buy a Color GB and CK especially if they had all new levels.
- Which raises the question: Has anyone tried playing Q2 or something similar using one of the conference room style projectors, such as the ones made by In-Focus? I realize image quality would not be "outstanding", but would it be "acceptable"?
At DefCon 5 they had a Quake tournament (which I lost first round cause the keyboard I was using only allowed one key to be pressed at once, which really fucked up my game) where one of the guys was playing through a projector with probably about a 15 foot diagonal screen. It was really cool to watch but the room should have been darker (a projector that outputs more lumens would have made for a better image in a medium-light condition like that).That's an umbrella statement, in addition to being an incorrect one. Just like animals in the wild, not all of them are predatory. Sure, there are some pedophiles who seek out young innocent children who have no predisposition to sexual contact. But just like there are scavenger animals who wait for a weak or dead animal to pounce upon, there are also scavenger pedophiles who look for individuals who are OPEN to sexual contact (for instance someone who's already in a channel called "Father&DaughterSex").
There is quite a difference between the two types of pedophiles, and I assure you they do exist. I see it as an unforgivable crime to molest or seduce a child who is not showing any signs of sexual activity. But let me tell you I was one fucking horny bastard when I was 13, and I know plenty of girls who were just as horny as me, and would have jumped at the opportunity of having sex with an older man. Hell, I know a few who did.
In my eyes there's nothing wrong--awkward, yes, but not wrong--with having consentual sex (yes it is possible) with a minor, no matter what the age. As long as it's fully consentual, age doesn't matter.
It SHOULD be an ethical decision, but our braindead government has made it into a legal one.
I hope he gets put away for a long time, though. Soliciting an FBI agent for sex is just SICKENING.
How do you manage to consistently output cartoons that completely fail to be humorous in any way, shape, or form?
However, this type of modem setup requires software (in the form of a driver) to handle all the tasks the computer's supposed to perform for the modem, and most modem companies who make HSP modems are too lazy to write drivers for anything but windows. That's the only reason why they're referred to as WinModems.
- You have a completely idealistic view of how to bring up kids and the complexities involved. When it is your money that is paying for your kids to do everything, then you will find that you wont be giving them money for things they want to do that you are not happy about. So effectively you will be censoring their view of the world and what they can do in it.
Yes, but the bottom line is that it SHOULD be the parent's job to censor what the child sees, and NOT the job of some dimwit theater employee, or a government who is completely out of touch with the kids that it's trying to protect.If a parent wants to let their 7 year old kid watch porno, they're perfectly entitled to do that. Some people may think it's wrong, or immoral, but really it's up to the parent to decide.
When I was seven years old my parents would screen every movie we rented, and then when we watched it, they'd make me leave the room in advance whenever nudity ocured. If they rented a movie for themselves that they didn't feel I was old enough to see, they'd hide the video.
Then, when I was little older, they stopped doing that, and I was ready for it. Part of it was probably because when I was seven I was also playing doctor with the two sisters who lived next door ;)
- If you were my daughter I'd spank you for saying that.
Looks like nobody's going to do any spaking, since the author of the post is obviously a man, and therefore is physically incapabale of being ANYONE'S daughter.This whole issue is just horrifically stupid. The other day I got carded to see American Pie with some friends, a movie which I had not only seen at another theater without hassle, but also have on my hard drive at home. And of course, the person carding me probably wasn't much older than me to begin with.
I've never been carded before, and it really pissed me off. I don't look underage, as far as everybody except that ticket booth nazi is concerned (I had recently seen Blair Witch and South Park at theateres which promised to card EVERYONE).
I've never see any problems erupt like the one in JonKatz's article. That's just absurd. Any manager of a movie theater who refuses to let kids in even when their mother is right there telling the manager that they have her consent needs to be fired. Nobody cares about the customers anymore.
If I was a parent, and there was an usher at the door of the theater forcing me to stay inside, and I had to go to the bathroom, I'd make a big scene and piss in the fucking theater. Then maybe they'd realize how absurd their policies were and consider changing them. I'd certainly consider changing my house rules if someone pissed in my living room in protest.
But the point is that by placing themselves on the front lines of the assault, they ARE fighting the moral war. There would be no moral war taking place at the theaters if there were no teenaged ticket-taking soldiers poised at attention on the popcorn-butter stained battlegrounds.
I haven't even turned on my TV in over 3 months. I'm not even sure if the cable's plugged in. I don't use the VCR cause I have a DVD-ROM drive. I can get my news through cnn.com and slashdot, and most shows these days suck. Sifl N Olly isn't airing any new episodes, and the new Simpsons suck. The only TV I've actually watched recently is one episode of Futurama on the TV at the hotel in Vegas during DefCon.
Actually, I got a CD from cDc that had CIH on it.
So if I type my name into a Yahoo search, do they own me?